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One of the most famous comedians to come out of Scotland in the 1960s, Stanley Baxter was responsible for a series of sketches in which he poked fun at Glasgow and the Glasgow dialect. Parliamo Glasgow, …
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The day they’re mindin her wi hauf-mast flags,Neist week they’ll spend ten million oan her kistin,Whiles Tony Blair, wi grief his een are mistin,Nae dout he’ll bray wi aa the ither windbags,Wha’ll …
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Ignorance is bliss
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Colin Will is very well known in Scottish poetry. He has had quite a number of books published, most of which have a poem or two in them in Scots. It is important that poets who live here and write in …
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Braken Fences, Wolf Kurtoglu’s first novel, has been described as ‘masterful’ (the Blether Region) and ‘the best novel written in Scots in recent times’ (Rab Wilson, …
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Where are the Borders and Caithness dialect writers? This is the question Evertype Online Publishers are asking. Some time ago Evertype launched a project to translate Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland …
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A Sonnet Redouble celebrating the life and times of William McCaw.Many years ago a book was recommended to me, by a venerable local worthy who knew I was interested in local history. This book was written …
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Braken Fences, Wolf Kurtoglu’s first novel, has been described as ‘masterful’ (the Blether Region) and ‘the best novel written in Scots in recent times’ (Rab Wilson, …
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Wigtown Book Festival have invited entries for their forthcoming Wigtown Poetry Competition. As well as writing in English, the competition also has categories for both Gaelic and Scots. The main prize …
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There are towns and villages in Scotland where the Scots language names have been Anglicised or changed altogether, but what if your town had no names to begin with? Or rather, many streets without names. …